Access to the residence and offices of Niger President Mohamed Bazoum was blocked off on Wednesday by members of the elite Presidential Guard, a source close to Bazoum said. The reason for the action was however unclear. But the Chairman of the Authority of Heads of Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu …

President Bola Tinubu will send his ministerial list to the Senate on Thursday, according to Senate Leader, Barrister Opeyemi Bamidele. Bamidele, who represents Ekiti Central in the upper legislative chamber, said in Abuja at the launch of his book, Leadership Through Communication (Volumes 1 and 2) that the President was unable to attend the event because he had to be away for …

The story that is on every lip and also trending widely is that “life is hard”. It is indeed true. The times are tough and Nigerians are no longer smiling due to unbearable economic hardships. Who will protect the vulnerable and long-suffering masses who are struggling daily to eke out a living? Who will cover their “nakedness”? President Bola Ahmed …

I received the material you are about to read from a beloved first cousin of mine, Architect Akintunde (Tunde) Imolehin way before the inauguration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as president. Titled, Asiwaju: 10 Things Before 29th May, I cannot actually say why I did not print it before Tinubu’s inauguration since the “10 things” listed therein were meant as …

The presidency on Saturday insisted that the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in last February’s presidential poll, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu won “a free, fair and credible election”. It described the ballot as the “most transparent election ever conducted in Nigeria since 1999”. In response to the alarm raised on Friday by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic …

President Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of Infrastructure Support Fund (ISF) for the 36 states of the Federation as part of measures to cushion the effects of the petrol subsidy removal on the people. According to a statement on Thursday by the President’s Special Adviser on Special Duties, Communications and Strategy, Mr. Dele Alake, the approval was disclosed at the …

In a bid to cushion the effects of the removal of fuel subsidy, President Bola Tinubu has approved a review of his administration’s plan for a monthly N8,000 transfer to 12 million of the poorest households in the country for six months. The plan was contained in a letter read last Thursday on the floor of the House of Representatives regarding the …

The National Chairman All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu was reportedly asked to resign his position on Sunday after a prolonged cold war with President Bola Tinubu. In the buildup to the party presidential primary last year, Adamu had announced the then Senate President, Dr. Ahmad Lawan as the preferred choice of the sitting President Muhammadu Buhari. But the …

We shall be towing the tacit wisdom in the thinker’s truism that the greatness of a nation is not so much in the great deposit of its natural resources, but in how it treats its workers, the ordinary, productive, taxable legion of its citizens. One of the most instructive moments for me was the statement uttered by the usually cerebral …

President Bola Tinubu on Saturday in Nairobi, Kenya called on African leaders to respect democracy, the rule of law, and ensure political stability. This is as Nigeria has also fulfilled its financial obligations to the African Union (AU) by making full payment of its assessed contributions for 2023. In his statement at a high-level event organised by the United Nations …